30 Neutrals - New Town Dream
Glaswegian transplanted to California gets to examine the human stories of tenement life from afar in an agit-janglepop setting
29 King Hannah - Big Swimmer
A big step forward for a second album, narrating a diaristic candour as the guitar explodes the languorous meditation states
28 Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us
A recalibration based on taking stock of previous ideas and twisting them into new dramatic shapes
27 Deerlady* - Greatest Hits
(* also referred to as Mali Obomsawin, Magdalena Abrego)
Stately, harmony-laden folk songwriting "about intimacy under colonialism" injected with shoegaze noise to great effect
26 Niamh Bury - Yellow Roses
A dark horse from the Irish scene, Bury's plaintive, poetic folk and pure voice feels fully formed on arrival
25 Laetitia Sadier - Rooting For Love
Sadier's first album since Stereolab reformed refines their various forms of Marxist space-lounge pop while not overlooking the acid
24 ELUCID - REVELATOR
The so far less celebrated half of Armand Hammer goes hard and heavy, challenging a hostile world over pummelling industrial noise
23 Geordie Greep - The New Sound
If Donald Fagen got really into King Crimson, tropicalia and mescaline...
22 Fontaines DC - Romance
And suddenly things go stratospheric at the same time as they go ambiguous, borrowing from electronics, chamber strings and janglepop alike
21 Mammoth Penguins - Here
Melodic power-pop dynamos rawer than ever as Emma Kupa tries to work out where she stands and what being in a band in 2024 actually is
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